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Revelatory Body

Revelatory Body

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Argues that theology can respond faithfully to the living God only by paying due attention to human bodily experience Scripture points to the human body and lived experience as the preeminent arena of God's continuing revelation in the world, says Luke Timothy Johnson. Attentively discerning the manifestations of God's Spirit in and through the body is essential for theology to recover its nature as an inductive art rather than -- as traditionally conceived -- a deductive science. Willingness to risk engaging actual human situations -- as opposed to abstract conceptualizations of those situations -- is required of the theologian, Johnson argues. He celebrates the intimations of divine presence and power in such human experiences as play, pain, pleasure, work, and aging, showing how theology can respond faithfully to the living God only by paying due attention to human bodily experience.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
258
Release Date:
2015-08-23
Publication Date:
2015-08-01
Publisher:
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0802886515
ISBN13:
9780802886514
Weight:
424 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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